Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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loser

/luzɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms losers

  1. noun A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. “In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser.”
  2. noun Something of poor quality.
  3. noun A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life. “That guy is a born loser!”
  4. noun (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
  5. noun One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
  6. noun A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
  7. noun (slang) A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once. “He's a three-time loser doing twenty years.”
  8. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

failure crumb losel louse absolute zero assbucket asswipe badling blatherskite bugger carrion cipher cockstain custron dandiprat doink dirtbag douchebag drop kick fellow also-ran nonstarter unsuccessful person

Antonyms

winner achiever

Etymology

From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see.

Borrowed from German Löser.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who loses. South.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “loser”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “loser” (best matches first).